Based on Prensky’s descriptions, I am a digital immigrant. I was born in 1970 and the very first Apple computer I saw was when I was seven and in the 2nd grade. It took up half the table it rested on and the monitor was thick and the screen only black and white. I never saw it again after that year - but its very existence foretold a future I am now living. From Atari's Pong, to the introduction of Cable TV, technology has grown leaps and bounds in my time. I started teaching when grade books were still in print, but by the time I left the classroom in 1999, they had been moved over to a database and email addresses were distributed to the staff. I have never been drawn to technology. I never enjoyed video games - albeit a game of Pong hooked up to our mammoth TV killed the void on a hot summer day. My brain has been wired to learn in a linear fashion. For that I am thankful. Because studies show, the brain learns better that way. These digital natives, of which I have fi...
A collection of musings, essays and responses to most things EdTech and some just life and learning. It's as a much a resource for myself as I hope you may find a nugget or two that is informative, practical and most of all inspiring.